14 DECEMBER 1918, Page 12

NORTH-EAST ULSTER AND GREAT BRITAIN.

(To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") , gin,—Your correspondents in the issue of November 30th who advocate the joining of the Six Counties of Ulster with Scotland instead of with England have surely not been born and bred in Ulster, or else they are "laughing in their sleeve." Four-sevenths of the Protestants of Ireland are Presbyterians. As such, their religious affinity is with Scotland. But the entire administration of Ireland, judicial and otherwise, is formed on the English model. The social life of the people of Ulster is also formed on the English model, not the Scotch. In fact, a Belfast man feels very much more at home in London than in Glasgow—a fact which I think shows the affinity of the people very strongly.—I am, Sir,